WASHINGTON, June 21, 2018 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — In its Government Reform Plan released today, the Administration made the case for privatizing the Postal Service, and preparing for an eventual change through recommendations coming in August from the President’s Task Force on the Postal System. The business community – mailers and suppliers in the paper, printing and technology industries collectively generating $1.4 trillion in sales annually and supporting 7.5 million jobs – strongly believes privatization is not the answer for a postal system in financial distress.
“The mere prospect of privatization will sow confusion, uncertainty and concern about maintaining mail and package delivery around the country, and stimulating still more volume and revenue loss when the major problem has been a drop off in mail,” Sackler added. “We can expect sparsely populated rural areas to be particularly hard hit in a privatized system and see their primary tie to the rest of the country degraded.”
Debatably successful privatization of foreign posts cannot easily be transposed here. Changes in comparatively small mail volume nations such as the United Kingdom or Finland would have a hard time translating to a country so much larger in geography and mail volume (USPS delivers some 42% of the world’s mail). Moreover, it has taken those countries quite a few years to implement their changes, and necessitated governments to retain responsibility for some services and pensions and other liabilities.
USPS is a part of the nation’s critical infrastructure, enabling medications to be delivered to seniors and others, charities to raise money, packages to be delivered everywhere and businesses of all types to thrive. It urgently needs attention, but does not need to have the baby thrown out with the bath water.
C21 consists of business mailing associations and companies – newspapers, advertisers, catalogers, e-commerce, parcels, greeting cards, financial services, telecommunications, insurance, small businesses of every kind, paper, printing, technology, envelope manufacturing, mail services, who understand the essential role of USPS and want it sustained for the future. It broadly represents an industry generating $1.4 trillion in sales and supporting 7.5 million private sector jobs.
SOURCE Coalition for a 21st Century Postal Service (C21) www.21stcenturypostal.org
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The President Dump plan calls for the Postal Service to follow Royal Mails plan. The employees were taken out of the government retirement plan and placed in the private co.’s retirement. Annuitants retirement payments were cut and last year the plan cut payment amounts again. The workers went on strike. The reductions were cut a bit. So we must give up our retirement and health insurance for what? A big jar of Vaseline!
Retired 2009, Those people in Wash, D.C.only massage the stupid unintelligent folks sitting at the trough with no chance to get anything from it. Well many of his base dwellers aren’t capable of thinking past the Third Grade level, and it shows and the leaders in D.C. are on the take, most of them. Get that scenario, or get gotten by a decorated fool, in the White House.
lobbyist and special interest groups wrote the recommendation for Trump wanting a piece of the pie. They don’t give a damn about the rural area only the money to be made from large volume deliveries to densely populated areas!